KINGSTON >> Nearly 25 years after it was erected, the Ulster County Vietnam Veterans Memorial will be rededicated Saturday during a ceremony at its new home.

Kingston Veterans Association Chairman Bill Forte said the ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. at the New York National Guard Armory at Kiersted and Manor avenues. He said the memorial was moved in November from its previous location, on Flatbush Avenue in Kingston, after the county decided to sell its building there. Forte said several new sites were considered, but it was decided to place the memorial at the armory, where “The Moving Wall” had been sited twice.

The Moving Wall is the half-scale traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Forte said it took six to seven months to get permission from the state to place the county’s memorial there at the armory.

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The Ulster County Vietnam Veterans Memorial is made up of three separate panels, one of which includes the names of the 41 local men who lost their lives in the Vietnam War, Forte said. The only living parent of one of those 41, Marie Kennedy, lost her son, Army Pfc. John J. Senor in 1969 during the war, and she will place a wreath at the memorial as part of the rededication ceremony.

“We have no fancy speakers,” Forte said of the ceremony. “We have no politicians.”

He said the Rev. LeRoy Ness will provide the opening prayer, as he did during the original ceremony. Forte said Ness is a retired Army chaplain who served in Vietnam.

That prayer will be followed by a song performed by Terri Dwyer, who sang at the original dedication, Forte said. That will be followed by a few words on the history of the memorial and how the money to build it was raised.

Forte said Bill Payne, who served in the Marine Corps, then will read the 41 names on the memorial as he did at the original dedication ceremony.

Forte said Kennedy and Ulster County Executive Michael Hein then will lay the wreath at the memorial and a salute will be fired by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1386 firing squad. Taps will be played by retired Master Sgt. Joseph Forte, Bill’s father, who performed them at the first ceremony.

“I brought back as many as I could,” the younger Forte said of the rededication ceremony participants.

Following the ceremony, there will be a performance by The Paul Luke Band, which was instrumental in helping raise the funds to buy the memorial.

The ceremony is open to the public, and refreshments will be served afterward.